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No doubt, then, that a free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.
— Augustine Of Hippo
It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
— Nicolas Chamfort
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
— Arthur C. Clarke
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
— Victoria Magazine
Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.
— Elizabeth Peters
The writer's life is frightful
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
— Anatole France
Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.
— Hector Abad Faciolince
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
— Mignon McLaughlin
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fallFrightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
— Frederic Raphael
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
— Storm Jameson
I may do some good before I am deadbe a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. — Thomas Hardy
Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlikeA lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck. — Paul Verlaine
Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.
— Clare B. Dunkle
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ...
— William Graham Sumner
No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
— George MacDonald
Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.
— Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
— Hermann Hesse
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
— Thomas Jefferson
The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked itthus! — Mary Shelley
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
— Thomas Carlyle
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
— Albert Einstein
There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
— Samuel Johnson
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
— Victor Hugo
Oh the weather outside is frightful...
— Lois Lowry
Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm.
— Johann Ludwig Tieck
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
— Winston S. Churchill
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Slavery is an awful thing," stammered out Kayerts in an unsteady voice. "Frightful - the sufferings," grunted Carlier with conviction.
— Joseph Conrad
Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.
— Albert Einstein
Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you?
— Sarah Waters
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
— Jorge Luis Borges
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
— Francoise Sagan
